Threadless is in Chicago. Rahm Emanuel visited. After he visited, he Twittered, "Seriously, this city used to build things. Now we're just assholes with novelty t-shirts. I'm with motherfucking stupid."

They switched from PHP to Django. They're still fighting a lot of technical debt.

Emanuel's electoral campaign was the inspiration for a Twitter account, @MayorEmanuel, which was written by Chicago journalist Dan Sinker. The account received over 43000 followers, and was more popular than Emanuel's real Twitter account. Emanuel announced on February 28th that if the author would reveal himself, he would donate $5000 to the charity of his choice.[84] When Sinker revealed himself, Emanuel donated the money to Young Chicago Authors, an community organisation which helps young people with writing and publishing skills.[85]